The Master/Detail section is 2 columns. Each Master + Detail group must stay together (KeepTogether). If a group does not fit in the remaining space of column 1, it should move completely to column 2.

I also need the unused space in column 1 to be filled with empty bordered rows so both columns have the same visual height.

Below this, I have another independent section, also 2 columns with the same widths. For example, it should always show 10 rows total (5 left + 5 right). If there are only 3 records, the rest should be empty bordered rows.

Each section is designed on a separate report page, but the next page is configured to continue on the previous physical page when possible.

What is the best way to calculate empty rows using FreeSpace / RowCount without creating an unnecessary new page?

I have found that whenever I load multiple form which have each own instance of frxReport and frxDBDataset, then when I open the report designer Datasets, it will show not only frxDBDataset from the current form, but also form all other loaded form. So I think it is related with frx component being a globally avaialble object.

Is there an option or a way to make report component not globally available object?

Here is the example, I loaded 3 form which has the same frxDBDataset alias, the list load all frxDBDataset from all form, if I close the other form, the list will be updated into only 2 frxDBDataset. And this is not the only thing that loaded as many as the form instance, also happen to export filter from the save button of default preview page

Thank you

I have designed a POS receipt using Delphi, which is working for less no of items , but, for more items , it's not printing all items . Just print only 12 inches and cut .

In my Report , I set the following ,

Paper size : user defined Size1

Paper Height : 300 cm

Paper width : 7.2 cm

In Page Options , Endless Page Height = True,

I am using Epson - T82 POS receipt printer.

i also set in printer preferences as

Layout -> Paper Width = 72.1 mm

Paper Length = 3276 mm

What is wrong in this ?

Please help.

Thanks

Veera

From what I can see I think that you have new macros in fr-core.hpp from lines 80 to 92 that define rsTop and rsLeft and others like it. This directly collides with some macros in DevExpress' dxwrap.hpp.

I'm not exactly sure how to have these two programs coexist anymore and if I can't figure it out we'll have to abandon Fast Reports after a couple of decades of use. Any guidance would be appreciated here. I can #undef them everywhere that I #include frCore.hpp, but that feels pretty unsafe for our rather large application.

Thanks in advance.

All of my professional report coding was done with Digital Metaphors' Report Builder which I had a pretty good handle on at the time. Unfortunately, that's a pretty pricey option for my use, so I was pleased when I found the free version of FastReports available for Delphi. I think it's version 2024.1.2 or close. How different could the two products be, I thought. Answer - different enough to cause me headaches.

Right off the bat I'm running into what must be a simple issue that surely has a simple answer. I dropped a frxReport and frxDBDataset. I connected the Dataset directly to my TTable - not a Delphi TDataset component. I open the designer, then the Report/Data menu which pops up the name of the frxDBDataset which I select and click out of the dialogue with OK. I add a MasterData band to the report page and drag four of my TTable's fields into it. The OpenDataSource property is set to True. I select File/Preview and the Preview window pops open and there's no data - plus an error stating:

"The following error(s) have occured: Cannot use the same dataset for Report.Dataset and Band.Dataset". What does that even mean? I've tried every variation of Dataset selection and absolutely nothing prevents the error while showing my 18 test data records. Please clue me in. Please.

TIA.

I want my Report to show max. n rows (of the MasterData) per page. Is there a smart way to do that?

Thanks!

I would like to upgrade to the latest version of FastReport and renew.

The problem I'm facing is that I'm stuck on Delphi 11.1.

The reason I'm asking this is that I tried to use the FastReport Online Installer dated 2024-04-22. This worked fine, but I'm also using IBDac, and I need to install custom data components of IBDac to integrate with FastReport. When trying to install, i get an error that the never-built packages from FastReport need to be rebuilt. I tried recompiling the packages several times unsuccessfully.

I then returned to the frvcl2023al installer, where it does work. But I would like to upgrade to the latest version of FastReport without having to buy a new subscription from Embarcadero.

Fast Reports preserves these small fonts to Excel, which I do not want, since most monitors are wider than a sheet of paper. Quick Reports did not preserve these small fonts.

The frxXLSLExport filter provides some options, but 'discard cell formats' was not one of them. The only events I could find were BeforeExport, BeginExport, and GenerateSheetName. I found several properties, but none that could turn off formatting.

In order to determine whether I would be able to make use of the three events above, I added them to my code as follows:

procedure TFormCottonAndSalesPositionRep.frxSimpleTextExport1BeforeExport(Sender: TObject);

begin

end;

procedure TFormCottonAndSalesPositionRep.frxXLSXExport1BeginExport(Sender: TObject);

begin

end;

function TFormCottonAndSalesPositionRep.frxXLSXExport1GenerateSheetName(

PageName: string; PageNumber: Integer): string;

begin

end;

I was able to set breakpoints and verify that Fast Reports did call these methods.

However, even though my code did nothing except return, the result was different. Before this change, I could save my report as an Excel spreadsheet and open it in Excel (although the cells were so small that they were unreadable unless I selected all columns and zoomed). After I added the code above, regenerated the Excel file, and tried to open it, I got a popup message:

We found a problem with some content in '{myFileName}'. Do you want us to try to recover as much as we can? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes.

I clicked Yes and the resulting spreadsheet looked the same as before.

If simply adding empty methods causes Fast Reports to generate invalid worksheets, how will I be able to eliminate the cell formatting?

Tom Disque

There are 2 bugs found, that runs to AV in multithreaded or interrupted by timer application.

First one in "module" procedure. Original algorithm dont fix possible buffer overrun.

Second one in "nrow, ncol" variables declaration. This variables must be declared in class, not as standalone unit shared variables.

Here is my suggestion with fixes.

Where are they and how can I use them?

Thanks - Andreas.

I then created another template and let it inherit from the previous template. But when I open this new report it shows report title, then page header, then page footer.

How does one fix this?

So a while back I came across this video explaining how to add group totals to group header.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwmtT4rrvPM

At one point the uploader puts 2 OnbeforePrint events.

In the second event he writes the line

Set(<ADOQuery1."Company">, Sum(<ADOQuery1."ItemsTotal">, MasterData1));

The field <ADOQuery1."Company"> has the company name. Why are we suddenly giving it a new value? Or am I misunderstanding the above line?

In the first event he writes

Memo3.Text:='Sum:'+FloatToStr(Get(<ADOQuery1."Company">));

If Memo2 already contains the sum, why not just write Memo3.Text:=Memo2.Text?

i used FR 2026.1.6 with Rad Studio 12.2 Win64, everything worked fine.

After migration to Rad Studio 13.1 Win64x, first try with FR 2026.1.7 printing is working but runtime formular design brings Access Violation #0

Nothing had to be changed for migrating with FR use, no compile warning/hints.

Then i tried:

2026.1 is running

2026.1.1 is running

2026.1.2 and all above till current 2026.1.7 has the same issue with AV when trying runtime designer.

Are there any known problems with Win64x in that versions?

Regards,

Sascha

Is version 2026.3.1 compatible with D13.1? The issue also affects D12.2

Any advise to resolve this issue?

Francisco Alvarado

‘Memo24: Error in expression ‘My report title’: ‘;’’ expected’

Within my Delphi code, I’ve tried:

setting the report variable to my delphi variable

setting the report variable to my delphi variable surrounded with quotation marks (“)

setting the report variable to my dephi variable surrounded with apostrophes (‘).

But each variation generates the same error.  Of note: I created other variables in my delphi code that aren’t string types, and they seem to work fine, specifically TDateTime, Integer, Boolean. It’s only the string data type that’s causing problems.

When the Lazarus app is running, if you hover your mouse over that field inside the red box for just a few seconds, it throws an error.

I found that the problem happens whenever the width of that cell in the red box is smaller than the length of the text inside it.

MasterData
  Detail (Credits)
     Footer (Total Credits / Total + Last Day Total)
Mase
  Detail (Debits)
     Footer (Total Debits / Final Balance)

    
        
            

The final balance of the column is then used as the starting balance of the next column using like: (Except the first one, which gets its value from a Query on code)

[Memo22.Value] and the other day totals [Memo98.Value + Memo49.Value]

DoublePass is enabled, otherwise the first columns cannot access values calculated later in the report. Credits and Debits also come from different DataSets.

THE PROBLEM IS

The first two columns calculate correctly, but starting from the third column the starting balance becomes incorrect. The total value from day 12 is -4.424,15 but passing to the next day, the value become 4.914,55 positive, and i can't even find where that number come from...

I've also tried using BEFORE PRINT on the top Memos, but the result is the same. Any guidance on the correct way to carry calculated balances between columns? What could be the issue?

Thanks in advance!

But when I run the report the bar chart ends up empty. Am I doing it wrong or is this not possible?

Which is great. People can't edit them and poke around.

Due to another issue I have ( FieldDefs saved in FR3 when it didn't use to? — FastReport Forum )

I have to remove the password, save it as plain XML text, edit the file manually in notepad and leave it not encrypted do to the bug above.... ugh.

I have a modified version of the report editor program for my own use.

I don't have to input the password because I have this code, to set it.

frxReport1.ReportOptions.HiddenPassword  := 'bleh';

Which is great, don't have to hammer it in every time i edit a report.

The issue is, in the designer, you can't remove the password, IF, I have the above code to set the password.

If I remove that line of code, then I can remove the password.

So can see here, password is grayed out. I can't do anything.

Remove the 1 line of code, and rerun, now i can remove it!

uses 
..., FMX.Skia, ...
GlobalUseSkia := True;

But when you do that and call frxReport.DesignReport to show the report designer raise an exception "Invalid Printer class: TFakePrinterWin". 

But all go normal when omit the line "GlobalUseSkia := True" or comment. 

I post because spend a lot of time trying to solve it. 

Unknown variable or datafield: FastSTKTKLINES."STKTKLQTYLINE"

Unknown variable or datafield: FastSTKTKLINES."STKTKLQTYVARIANCE_COST"

The above failure lines exist and display data in the <TfrxMasterData> band, see below:

 <TfrxMemoView Name="Memo14" Left="419.52783" Top="0" Width="71.81107" Height="17.00787402" DataField="STKTKL_QTY_VARIANCE_COST" DataSetName="FastSTKTKLINES" HAlign="haRight" Text="[FastSTKTKLINES.&#34;STKTKL_QTY_VARIANCE_COST&#34;]"/>

   <TfrxMemoView Name="Memo18" Left="638.74057" Top="0" Width="75.59054874" Height="17.00787402" DataField="STKTKL_QTY_LINE" DataSetName="FastSTKTKLINES" HAlign="haRight" Text="[FastSTKTKLINES.&#34;STKTKL_QTY_LINE&#34;]"/>

   yet gererate errors in the report summary band,: I have literally given up!

<TfrxReportSummary Name="ReportSummary1" FillType="ftBrush" FillGap.Top="0" FillGap.Left="0" FillGap.Bottom="0" FillGap.Right="0" Height="22.67718" Left="0" Top="240" Width="718.1107">

   <TfrxMemoView Name="Memo15" Left="355.27582" Top="0" Width="41.57483" Height="18.89765" Text="Totals:"/>

   <TfrxMemoView Name="memoCostVarianceTotal" Left="400.63018" Top="0" Width="90.70866142" Height="18.89765" DisplayFormat.FormatStr="%2.2m" DisplayFormat.Kind="fkNumeric" Frame.Color="12632256" Frame.Typ="15" HAlign="haRight" Text="[Sum(&#60;FastSTKTKLINES.&#34;STKTKL_QTY_VARIANCE_COST&#34;&#62;, Band4, 1)]"/>

   <TfrxMemoView Name="memoLineTotal" Left="623.62245" Top="0" Width="90.70872" Height="18.89765" DisplayFormat.FormatStr="%2.2m" DisplayFormat.Kind="fkNumeric" Frame.Color="12632256" Frame.Typ="15" HAlign="haRight" Text="[Sum(&#60;FastSTKTKLINES.&#34;STKTKL_QTY_LINE&#34;&#62;, Band4, 1)]"/>

  </TfrxReportSummary>

Kind Regards,

Robert

on my report, the MasterData band display only one field from my dataset, i use a TfrxMemoView as component.

It take the full band, align alClient, and can hold plain text of various sizes from one record to another, when having a large scale size text, it is splitte on 2 pages, as expected. The issue is on the second page printing, it occurs on the top of the page. How can i tell FR to print the second page at the same hight of the first one?

BR

Laurent

But instead, it is printing page 1 > page 1 > page 2 > page 2

This is the structure of my report. MasterData 1 and 3 uses the same dataset... does anyone know what could it be or what i could do to make it print the way i mentioned?

I've done some research, and this looks like to be in relation to the 'Collate' property that doesn't do anything, and that it is a problem old that existis since 2014 or less... but i couldn't find anything to correct this other than "use only ONE page". But i need both pages

I'm new with FasReport . I have build an app with XE2 CPP for analyzing soms analog signals.

The result must be into a pdf report. I saw that there are two ways to create a report. Via the cpp code or via the designer. In the app is a form with MaskEdits what presents the customer/client query.

Is it possible to get these MaskEdits text into the designer page?

And what about a RichEdit component?

P.

procedure PageHeader2OnBeforePrint(Sender: TfrxComponent);
var S: String;                  
begin
 S := 'Inhalt';                  
 Engine.AddAnchor(S);  
end;

But in the preview I get an error:

undefined identifier: 'Inhalt'

What is the solution?

frxReport1.Page.UnlimitedWidth := True;

Is this property supported in Lazarus, and if not, how can it be achieved if you want to achieve such an effect?

The function works just like in Excel: regardless of the number of columns, if you define the paper size as A4, it will display according to A4 dimensions. Any columns that don't fit will be moved to the next page.

Is there a way to use TfrxRichView in a multi-threaded server app?

What code should I use if I want the same functionality as the default "insert text" button, that makes a memo appear under the mouse cursor and can be placed manually?

with regards,

Martijn